Before she was Miley Cyrus, Grammy-winning provocateur, she was Miley Cyrus, star of Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana. And now, it looks like the 31-year-old is returning to her roots.
On April 17, a photo of Cyrus with waist-length brown hair worn under a baseball cap was published on the X account PopCrave. The image was a striking callback to her child star days when she played Miley Stewart, a normal tween girl who moonlighted as her pop star alter ego Hannah Montana.
As she transitioned from kid’s TV to MTV, Cyrus underwent a major aesthetic transformation that began with a drastic chop. In her reintroduction to the world, Cyrus debuted a bleached pixie cut. Though she’s worn her hair at varying lengths in the intervening years, she’s more or less remained a blonde. Which is precisely why her cocoa-colored hair comes as such a shock.
